Convergence of Themes -- theatre and Sreet Kids

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Tue Sep 28 13:37:50 PDT 2010


I love it when a plan comes together! Or maybe better - I love it when
thinking converges. Pat Black's posting about Sugata and the Hole in the
Wall crowd set the stage. Sugata, of course was not doing an Open Space - it
was even better. He was being open space. I just loved his repeated phrase,
"And then I left" Been there. And I felt a real shift in the way he was
working and thinking. He did not start with a fixed notion of an
institution/organization in which he was opening space and moving to self
organization. Quite the contrary  -- his starting point was all open space
in which self organization was the only way. His contribution was finding
ways to be supportive and be nutritive in that environment. 

 

In a very different realm I felt that Stella Duffy was doing the same sort
of thing, or close to it. She may have used Open Space (formally speaking) -
but at a deeper level it seemed that she had come to realize that theatre
(like all the rest of life) is open space and self organization rules. Her
contribution was to explore and create better was of being in that space.
(Stella beat on me if I am presuming too much J)

 

What I really love is the switch. It is all open space (self organizing) and
how do we maximize our life and contribution, as opposed to an alternative
view which presumes that it is all rigid structure and pre-organized into
which we are trying to introduce a little air. Very different starting
points which I find very exciting.

 

Harrison 

 

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